A Cruel Case
POPE the actor, well known for his devotion to the culinary art,
received an invitation to dinner, accompanied by an apology for the
simplicity of the intended fare--a small turbot and a boiled edgebone of
beef. The very thing of all others that I like, exclaimed Pope; I
will come with the greatest pleasure: and come he did, and eat he did,
till he could literally eat no longer; when the word was given, and a
haunch of venison was brought in. Poor Pope, after a puny effort at
trifling with a slice of fat, laid down his knife and fork, and gave way
to a hysterical burst of tears, exclaiming, A friend of twenty years'
standing, and to be served in this manner!